AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Centres Against Sexual Assault see more clients but miss out on Federal Government funding
EMMA HASTINGS
MAROONDAH LEADER JULY 29, 2013
SEXUAL assault support centres – including Ringwood East’s Centre Against Sexual Assault – are seeing up to 20 per cent more clients due to the Royal Commission but won’t be getting any extra funding.
The Federal Government recently announced 28 organisations across Australia would share in $45 million to support victims of sexual abuse who present to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
But none of the state’s Centres Against Sexual Assault received funding, spokeswoman Carolyn Worth said.
“I think there’s something quite bizarre about having a specialised service system in Victoria that deals with victims of sexual assault (CASAs) and (the Government) funds relationship agencies (instead).”
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